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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2792, 5 June 1890, Page 2

The Waikato County Council will meet at the Council Chambers, at 2.30 p.m. to-inorrow. We are glad to state that the scarlatina patient mentioned in our last issue is recovering. Messrs Sandes and Co. are in receipt of another parcel of Bellamy s "Looking Backward." We understand that Mr S. Young is about to retire from the Waipa Hotel, Ngaruawahia, owing to ill-health. Yesterday the race for the ' Blue Ribbon "was run at Epsom. At last advices Mr Merry's colt Surefoot was favourite. The next meeting of the Piako County Council will be held on Saturday, the 14th inst., at 11 a.m., in their office at Cambridge.

The quarterly meeting of the Borough of Hamilton Licensing Committee will be he held at the Court House, Hamilton, at noon on Saturday. Capt. Jackson, Resident Magistrate, went, to Raglan by coach yesterday, to hold Court there to-day. Mr L. O'Neill also went over on Court business. Mr Henry Reynolds will meet the milk suppliers to the Whatawhata factory this afternoon, and the Hamilton suppliers to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, at the factory. The quarterly meeting of the Ngaruawahia Licensing Committee was held on Tuesday, when renewals of the licenses for the two hotels in the district were granted. It is the intention of the officers and members of Lodge Beta, Waikato, to hold a ball on the 24th inst., St. Johns Day in celebration of the installation of their officers for the coming year. The germ of that plague to farmers, rust in wheat, is evidently very much alive in Waikato, for we hear of cases in which a few grains of an affected crop have fallen to the ground, germinated, and are now springing up red with rust. Not a propitious foreboding for tho next season. It is reported that the natives at a Maori settlement on the Waikato River, below Mercer, have during the last few days been attacked with an epidemic which has resulted in the death of 17 of them. There is not yet any certainty as to whether the complaint is la grippe. In Mr Wight's report on the outbreak of phylloxera in the Whangarei district, he states that lie found the pest existing in several vineyards, tie also found a whole army of pests on other fruit tres-i consisting of numerous species of scale, codlm moth, mealy bug, p.tc. The following team will represent Hamilton in the football match against Paterangi, on Saturday next:— "'Neill, Johnston, W. Hammond, Hume Maves (2), Wright, Jolly, Quinn, Ca«sidy, J. Kelly, Gillett, McKenzie, Peacock, and Hopkins. Players are requested to roll up at 3 o'clock sharp. Mr Iwerson, of Whatawhata, the lucky holder of the winning ticket in a lottery conducted in Ireland received his draft for tho £200 by the last mail. The Maoris in and around Whatawhata are exceedingly anxious to take tickets in another that has lately been projected. Messrs McNicol and Co. will kold a clearing sale at Koreone (Gould's farm) Waitoa, under instrastions from Mr J. D. Adams. The stock to bo offered at this sale is of superior quality, and as they will be sold without reserve farmers should not miss the opportunity of improving their flocks. Large entries are being received by .Messrs McNicol and Co. for their special horse sale to be held at Hamilton on the 25th inst. They require eighty good young light harness and draught horses and good weight-carrying hacks for this sale. The sale will begin punctually at 11 o'clock and there will be no interval, so as to be able to get through before dark. The monthly meeting of the Waikato Farmer's Club, Hamilton Branch will be held in The Waikato Times Buildings, on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock sharp. It is expected there will be a large attendance, as interesting papers are to be read, one by Mr B. P. Bayly, on tho Frozen Meat Question, one by Mr E. C. Shepherd on the Improvement of the Draught Stock in the district, and also one by Mr W. A. Murray on "Some Causes of the Depression." Remarkable success (says the Star) appears to be attending Dr. Wilkins, of Auckland, in hi.s treatment of the distressing complaint known as stricture, by the oleotro-chemical decomposition process. Tho other day, we gave an extract from the Thames Advertiser of a remarkable cure of this complaint by the doctor, and amongst those who hai' read it -was a man who had suffered from tho disease for thirty years. He had undergone one operation after another, and had been chloroformed again and again, but , with no success. The paragraph from the Thames paper led him to call on Dr. Wilkins, with the result that he was completely cured in several days. The cure is completed within a few minutes, the pain is almost nil and the cure permanent. The complaint is a comparatively common one, and his success with the new treatment has brought the doctor seven or eight cases similar to those referred to, and in eacli instance the trouble i» being overcome